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The City of New Bern’s Mayor Jeffrey Odham is launching a new program designed to recognize and honor New Bernian’s who show exemplary citizenship within the community.
For the first time in decades, New Bern will be represented at the Miss North Carolina Competition this June.
Milton “Milt” Beron Langston, Jr. (1928-2023), husband, grandfather, great-grandfather, pharmacist, licensed sea captain, avid motor-boater, fisherman, hunter (until he gave up his gun for a camera), Paul Harris Fellow, wood
Over 34 years, more than 4500 new residents of New Bern were welcomed with a friendly greeting and a basket of information from Sandie Swigart.
It was a good thing that some soulless thug stole the gate to the Jerkins grave 25 years ago, because if they hadn’t, I’d still be trying to figure out a subject for a history column this week. Earlier in the week I covered the return of an elaborate gate that hung on an ornate fence surrounding the grave plot of the Jerkins family. Some guy bought it for $350 at an auction, found out it had been stolen from Cedar Grove years and kindly sold it back for a 100% profit at $700. It was very generous of him. The family plot was that of Alonzo T. Jerkins, who died in 1895 at the age of 87—an...